COSM will travel to Dallas, Texas in 2022 for some much needed interaction and networking (and social distancing, of course).
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It may be a bit early in the leaf color change cycle to start putting the Fall 2022 work out in public view, but if I don't start today there's a risk it'll be Christmas and I'll still be stuck on the prior season's song & dance routine! Dallas is absolutely gorgeous so far this year!
Flavors of the season, if tasted by air.
It almost didn't happen yesterday, but the puddle on the ground kind of proved that maybe it did. That wicked side-lighting though... wow!
Reimagining how a city can look (framed around an eye-blink's worth of time that it looks that way). That's the strategy I take when composing the photos mentally and plotting the order in which they get prioritized. I like photos like these the best for the season, because it's a photo I'd never actively seek out if the foreground and midground accents were the default static greens. But in it's chaotic wardrobe change, the whole scene becomes something far less serious about itself - and for once the drab beiges and neutrals of risk-averse building owners actually sits well behind the excitement of the transition.
So glad the philanthropist family name that this bridge is named after is McDermott and not McDonalds. We'd never hear the end of it.
If trees looked like this year-round, and Fall color change meant them turning all green for two-ish weeks, would we get bored of this too and ache for when they go uni-color? No way. And it wouldn't be a neck-break though scrambling to shoot everything possible within the tiny window of peak colors.
Moon came out last night for what felt like mere minutes. Didn't get the photo I was intending, but I picked a general spot where I knew I could keep relocating to reframe its trajectory back into the framework of the city. Happy to get that full moonlight in my retinas at least for a little bit.
Reflection legitimizes.
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Yes, those 5 were going like 35 m's per h and enjoying themselves a leisurely morning commute, apparently.
City in stealth mode, like trying to sneak a girl in when the parents are asleep. Moon is the obnoxiously loud dog excited to greet their new best friend. The dog is just happy to meet a human who seemingly also can't figure out doorknobs either and resorts to climbing through windows. (I forget, this must have been bird migration season in July and somehow everyone decided to unplug their LEDs?)
Flipping a coin each morning lately to find out which Dallas we're going to get later that day.
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In the city's absence of rivers, mountains, and canyons, we've chosen to make our own.
You can't become a better version of yourself by being mean to yourself.
Yesterday, weather gave its partner Dallas the breakfast table trap convo of "Go ahead and watch March Madness with your little friends at the bar all day, I'll be fine." When by dinnertime the weather was not, in fact, fine. And this was what was waiting on the drive home.
Head out to shoot the liveliest scenes that a day can make, and you may often find moments that question the very nature of reality. I believe it was real because I pulled them off an SD card eventually, and a whole pile of shots and BTS vids are stored on a computer until they're unearthed again, but there's still that essence of disbelief from whether that was a dream or whether it really happened.
Habits of shooting the same photo in Dallas as time goes along - nowadays I look at these as time capsules of how much the city is its own living and breathing creature. What was a parking lot is now a building, old developments are now a giant hole in the ground. Next year it'll be a steel and concrete skeleton, and soon enough this photo spot will be obstructed and diminished... a future visual relic of a short window in the city growing up.
Soggy but still colorful
Dallas had an early-morning planetary alignment happen overhead on Tuesday just prior to sunrise. In one little corner of the sky you could find Mercury, Mars, Venus, and the crescent moon making a kind of arc to the southeast. For the purists, I want to be clear that I boosted the brightness of Mercury and Mars digitally while developing this one, but they're there and they were visible to the naked eye.